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Byron Bay House and Studio by Vokes and Peters
Inside meets outside in a Byron Bay house that has a profound connection to nature and a grounding in exceptional craftsmanship.
ResidentialHoliday mode: Hastings Park Apartment
Overlooking the main beach in Queensland’s Noosa, this house captures that relaxed, beach holiday feeling.
ResidentialBrisbane’s flood-resilient ferry terminals
Eight ferry terminals have been stitched to their Brisbane River sites in a generous, flood-resilient scheme that elevates the public transit experience.
Landscape / urbanTesting new ground in housing: WGV
A collaborative experiment in medium-density housing led by Western Australia’s land development agency seeks to subvert traditional suburban development.
ResidentialSheds for sharing: North Melbourne House
Seizing an opportunity to build on an empty neighbouring block, the owners of a worker’s cottage in North Melbourne (with the help of NMBW Architecture Studio) have added a flexible secondary house that will allow them to age in place.
ResidentialCelebrating curves: Regent
A gentle, intricate alteration and addition to a Paddington terrace uses soft curves and interlocking forms to graft the new onto the old and provide seamless continuity of space.
ResidentialBelow the ridgeline: Springs Beach House
Drawing on an intimate knowledge of the region, the architects of this Queensland house have created a low-maintenance and environmentally sensitive beach retreat for an extended family.
ResidentialThe Territory lifestyle: Tropology for DHA
Challenging the culture of housing in Darwin with this compact, climatically appropriate duplex for defence personnel, Troppo Architects has designed a spearhead for built advocacy, imbued with local identity.
ResidentialAlluring and bold: Mixed Use House
A multi-generational home and commercial tenancy coexist in St Kilda’s Mixed Use House, designed by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design with DDB Design, to explore and rethink traditional family housing typologies.
Commercial, ResidentialAngle of repose: Bendigo Hospital
Suffused with a conscious connection to place and community, Bendigo’s new hospital designed by Silver Thomas Hanley and Bates Smart fosters a sense of repose with quiet confidence and civic gravitas.
Health‘Thrillingly Simple’: Possum Shoot Shed
A simple pavilion formed from the remnants of an existing shed, this “thrillingly simple” project makes the most of its majestic site.
ResidentialKensington Cathedral
A house with an unlikely history is given an unashamedly contemporary renovation by Ha Architecture, Product and Environment that still references the original Edwardian form.
Residential‘A powerful form’: Lune de Sang Pavilion
In a slow-growth forest in the Byron Bay hinterland, the final dwelling in a collection of powerful, monumental concrete structures designed by CHROFI has been completed – all designed to endure.
Residential‘An authentic architecture of materiality’: M3565 Main Beach Apartments
This prestigious beachside apartment building by Virginia Kerridge Architect stands out from its neighbours by virtue of its articulate materiality and sensitive human scale.
ResidentialHighly crafted: Freshwater Apartment
A focus on craft and making provides this radically reconfigured apartment with a sense of warmth and tactile materiality, enhancing its stunning views.
ResidentialVillage living: Mitti Street House
Simultaneously a contained and open structure, this calming sanctuary embraces its subtropical setting while defending the interior from rainforest insects.
ResidentialAn outdoor challenge: Waterloo House
A sensitive extension to a heritage-listed Sydney terrace house by Anthony Gill Architects offers generous living spaces and encourages a life lived outdoors.
Effortless makeover: Balwyn House
Neil Architecture has thoroughly transformed a classic suburban house by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.
ResidentialEnriching presence: ICC Sydney
The ICC Sydney complex, designed by Hassell and Populous, houses the interrelated realms of exhibition, entertainment and conference as part of the revitalization of Sydney’s Darling Harbour.
Public / culturalModern dialogue: Longview Avenue Garden Room
Taylor and Hinds Architects’ addition to a 1950s modernist house starts a “conversation” with the original architecture, without compromising the originality and idiosyncrasy of the new.
ResidentialPostmodern petrol station: United Petroleum
This futuristic reimagining of the humble roadside service station as sculptural architecture by Peddle Thorp Architects brings a postmodern statement to Corio, on the industrial outskirts of Geelong.
CommercialJungle book: Woollahra Library
At Woollahra Library in Double Bay, Sydney, the focus is just as much on people as it is about books. Designed by BVN, it is a lively space for exploration and community connection.
InteriorsDomesticated commercial: North Lakes Veterinary Hospital
In its design of a veterinary hospital for a rapidly growing suburb north of Brisbane, Vokes and Peters has returned to basics, catering to staff, clients and animals with “precision and care.”
HealthHiding in plain sight: Macmasters Beach House
Replacing a 1940s weatherboard cottage, this pragmatic new beach house by Polly Harbison Design responds sensitively to its environment while resisting the temptation to hide.
ResidentialOpen and shut: Perimeter House
Make Architecture’s addition to a two-bedroom house in Abbotsford reflects the area’s industrial aesthetic while working hard to offer sanctuary and suburban amenity.
ResidentialTelescopic vision: Annandale House
Making clever use of an extreme slope, this robust and detail-focused addition to a weatherboard cottage by Welsh and Major Architects extends across its site like a telescope, creating open, calm spaces in dense inner-Sydney.
Residential‘Intrinsically Sydney’: The EY Centre
Combining a kinetic timber facade and a typology more often associated with slick glass, FJMT has created this “sublime” office tower that is tuned to the history of its harbour-side site and is “intrinsically Sydney.”
CommercialIceberg palace: Halo House
Taking aesthetic cues from Nordic modernism and conceptual inspiration from the Antarctic, this family home by Breathe Architecture eschews polarization in favour of a consistent design language.
ResidentialA parametric quest: Anna Meares Velodrome
Cox Architecture has harnessed the full potential of parametric design to create a “taut and elegant” velodrome at Brisbane’s Sleeman Sports Complex, inspired by the speed, precision and expertise of track cycling.
Public / culturalIn disguise: Balmoral House
In Balmoral House by Collins and Turner a choreographed and artful sequence of layered internal and external spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.
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